Daily 5 - Day 262

Today's Daily 5:

1. Loving having my calendar, to do list, and shopping list all available at the tap of an icon on my new iphone
2. Today was about wedding stuff - I spent the afternoon working with two of T & L's friends to pull together some pictures for a slideshow for at their reception.  Now I just need to scan some of those photos, and order and sort the others into something fun.  But it was a much more fun afternoon than I was expecting, to look through photos.
3. Today was also the final practice session for my wedding hair.  It's all still pinned up at the moment.  I really like what the girl who is doing our hair (who is also one of the bridesmaids) came up with for my hair.  
4. Freshly washed sheets on my bed.
5. The smell of candles that were lit all around my bedroom tonight.

Daily 5 - Day 255

Today's Daily 5:

1. Got my laundry done.  I love the smell of clean laundry.
2. Lit candles around my bedroom
3. A hug from my mom
4. Vietnamese take-out for supper
5. reading Sara Miles' "Jesus Freak"

Sunday Stuff

It's 10:00 on Sunday morning.

I'm propped in bed, waiting for the moment when silence upstairs tells me that Grandma has left for church.

Then, I spring into action.  Sort of.

Laundry.  Washing the sheets on my bed and towels in the bathroom.  Various cleaning tasks.  Taking the garbage out.

But it's Sunday, and I'm feeling reflective too.

Tired.  Longing.

Pondering the internal stuff.  The stuff that is shifting and changing inside me.  The stuff I'm still hesitating to say out loud, or even in writing, in fear that it will dissipate in the face of exposure to the world.

I'm thinking about timing.  About God's timing and mine.

And more of those "you want me to what?" moments.

I'm waiting and praying.

Remembering moments of laughter from last night, which was so much better and less awkward than I thought it would be.

Thinking about relationships, and the shifts inside of me that I'm feeling there too.

Later, there will be family stuff.  At least a little family stuff.

Some meal planning.  Cooking perhaps.

Possibly some yoga, to stretch the muscles that ache this morning, telling me that yesterday's massage really did work and ease the muscles in my shoulders, neck and back - leftovers from an accident that is now three months in the past.

Maybe a conversation with friends.

Or, if the weather permits, a walk at the zoo or in the park.  The weather likely won't permit today, but it's a nice thought.

It's Sunday, and this is my day. 

Not quite what my Sunday's once were, but quiet and routine in it's own, different way.

Daily 5 - Day 221

Today's Daily 5:

1. A Sunday evening at home, and Grandma was out!  So great to just relax and enjoy the quiet and move about the house freely.
2. Leftover Sweet Chili Chicken for supper
3. Took a longish walk this afternoon in the sun, to do an errand or two
4. Had a really productive day, with lots of time to think.
5. trying to think and choose differently again.  Not easy, but hopefully worth it.
6. freshly painted fingernails and toenails
7. Loving the smell of freshly washed sheets
8. took a long (for me anyway), refreshing shower tonight while Grandma was out.  Able to do it without wondering if she was sitting on her perch in the living room, timing how long I was in there, and feeling guilty and rushing.  
9. Caught up on some stuff that I was WAY behind on.
10. Lighted candles scattered around my room.

Daily 5 - Day 207

Today's Daily 5:

1. This quote from Richard Rohr that I posted earlier.  Remember the good things even more strongly than the bad, but learn from both.  That's kind of the goal, really, of the daily 5 - to re-shape thought to remember the good more strongly than the bad, to celebrate it, and not let my life be only shape by the lessons learned in the bad times.
2. Shake the Dust.  I've been listening to it over and over today as I moved around my space, accomplishing things.  Somehow that same message - to live again.  It's one I'm clinging to right now.
3. Toaster waffles for breakfast.  With butter and pancake syrup.
4. Went for a walk by myself in the sun today.  Yes, it was down city streets, to pick up some lunch, but it was a walk, alone, in the sun.
5. It was a better day as far as coping with "life at Grandma's" goes
6. Banana cream pie
7. Freshly washed sheets and pajamas
8. Got a lot of unpacking done.  The room almost looks homey now.
9. Playing some random online games for a while
10. DVDs or online TV playing as I sorted and unpacked and cleaned.

Daily 5 - Day 184

Today's Daily 5:

1. newly done fingernails and toenails
2. the smell of freshly washed laundry
3. a restful evening
4. thankful that the painkillers helped
5. managing to pack much of the remainder of the living room.

Daily 5 - Day 177

Today's Daily 5:

1. Friday!
2. Got through a ton of "to dos" without rushing around or feeling stressed tonight
3. Freshly painted finger and toe nails
4. Watching Jesus Culture conference from the comforts of my bed for much of the evening - loved the worship!
5. Crawling into freshly washed sheets
6. Did a budget update, to reflect the unexpected year end bonus from work that I got.  It's nice to have that blessing.
7. Finished another audio book on my way home today - I really liked this one.  I'll probably post about it in the next day or two.
8. Thankful that even on a day with hard memories again, this year I'm seeing the places where my heart is healing
9. Listened to a great sermon on my commute today too.  There's something about someone who lives with integrity preaching the love of Christ that always stops me in my tracks.
10. A candle lit in my oil burner all evening.

Daily 5 - Day 142

Welcome to 2010.  Or at least the technical first daily 5 list of 2010.  (Technical since I'm pretty sure I wrote the daily 5 for December 31, 2009 at like 1:30 this morning.)

Today's Daily 5:

1. Zoo trip
2. Giggling at the anteaters - I really can't quite explain just what kind of a moment that was.  It was beautiful to just feel those giggles kind of well up inside me and escape.  For me, after such a hard year, and so much sadness, and having to so deliberately choose joy and thankfulness at every turn, it was a special gift from a loving Abba to stand there, watching that crazy part of creation, and feel the joy simply well up within me and burst forth.  It was a really wonderful way to begin the year.
3. Watching a movie with mom and dad, T. & L.
4. The annual Chinese food New Year's day dinner with both of my parents, both brothers, and L.
5. The ironic moment of being goaded into opening a fortune cookie I wasn't particularly wanting to eat, "just for the fortune" and cracking mine open to discover it didn't have a fortune!  Not sure what that says about my year to come!  But it was a pretty funny moment.
6. Playing crokinole and Dutch Blitz with mom and dad and J.
7. time this afternoon to do a bit of cleaning in my bedroom
8. making a list of goals, hopes, dreams, self-reminders etc. for the coming year
9. taking photos at the zoo this morning with Dad's camera
10. Clean laundry - yep, I kicked off the new year with washing my sheets and towels, and other laundry.  Because there's something about celebrating newness with such fresh smelling sheets, towels and pajamas to crawl into at the end of the jay.  I know, it's weird, but it really is a joyful thing for me.
    

Daily 5 - Day 136

I almost forgot that I needed to still stop in here and write a daily 5 post.  Whoops!

So, here's today's list:

1. fresh clean sheets on my bed again
2. watching two movies with mom and dad at their house today
3. moments of laughter
4. cleaning up the kitchen a bit
5. beginning the process of restoring order to my chaotic bedroom after all of the Christmas creating.